H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

H. P. Lovecraft

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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Creativity

• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Funny
  • Rap

• Venus favors the bold.

  

  Ovid
  • Bold
  • Favors
  • Venus

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • Words
  • You

• I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
  • Remember
  • You

• I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

  

  Mahavira
  • Laws
  • Infinite
  • Modes

• You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Know
  • Story
  • Chapter

• It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Social
  • Now

• Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • People
  • Movies
  • Lying

• I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Food
  • Room
  • My Own

• I am very shy with people I don't know.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Shy

• I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe

• I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.

  

  James G. Stavridis
  • Up
  • Player
  • Baseball

• All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'

  

  Lennie James
  • Great

• The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Drinking
  • Whiskey
  • Unconscious

• Well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • God
  • Energy
  • Strange

• Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • May